The probe by the Commerce Department’s inspector general found that paralegals at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s appeals board were paid more than $5 million for their time even though there was so little work for them to do that supervisors didn’t care how they used it.

The idle paralegals nonetheless managed to take home more than a half-million dollars in performance bonuses from 2009 to 2013, before the agency hired enough judges to increase the workload, according to the report.

The underworked paralegals and supervisors concealed non-work activities by recording hours under the pay code as “other time.”

One official told investigators it was an open secret that “other time” was code for “I don’t have to work, but I’m going to get paid.”

THIS is what the Government does with our hard earned tax dollars while the Americans paying for it struggle? They should ALL be in jail. I can only wonder just how much of this goes on day in and day out all across the Government agency spectrum. Taxpayers are forced to buy crappy health care many really can't afford or another three letter agency (IRS) will slam them with penalties. They can find mainly part time, low pay, no benefits jobs because of the incompetence of the Democrats who have run 2/3rds of the legislative/executive Government since 2011 and 100% of it from 2009 to 2011. We can all remember how the Democrat fought tooth and nail to increase the waste, fraud and abuse during the Government shut down.

Don't we deserve better than what we've gotten for the last stagnant malaise 6 years? Remember the good economic times of the 1990's? Republican's controlled Congress from 1994 on. Republicans warned of the impending housing market collapse in April 2001............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM

Paralegals on the payroll with nothing to do for four years since the Democrats took over. Vote as many Democrats out of office in November as we can, especially in the do nothing Harry Reid Senate.

donttread

07-30-2014, 07:07 AM

THIS is what the Government does with our hard earned tax dollars while the Americans paying for it struggle? They should ALL be in jail. I can only wonder just how much of this goes on day in and day out all across the Government agency spectrum. Taxpayers are forced to buy crappy health care many really can't afford or another three letter agency (IRS) will slam them with penalties. They can find mainly part time, low pay, no benefits jobs because of the incompetence of the Democrats who have run 2/3rds of the legislative/executive Government since 2011 and 100% of it from 2009 to 2011. We can all remember how the Democrat fought tooth and nail to increase the waste, fraud and abuse during the Government shut down.

Don't we deserve better than what we've gotten for the last stagnant malaise 6 years? Remember the good economic times of the 1990's? Republican's controlled Congress from 1994 on. Republicans warned of the impending housing market collapse in April 2001............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM

Paralegals on the payroll with nothing to do for four years since the Democrats took over. Vote as many Democrats out of office in November as we can, especially in the do nothing Harry Reid Senate.